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+import gzip, FuseArchive
+
+class Serializer:
+    """This lets us experiment with different main file serializers"""
+    @staticmethod
+    def dump( f, obj ):
+        out = FuseArchiveStream.open( f, "wb" )
+        Serializer.dumpfh( obj, out ) # new file format
+        out.close()
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def dumpfh( fh, obj ):
+        logging.debug( "Going to serialize %s to %s" % ( obj, fh ) )
+        fh.truncate( 0 )
+        fh.seek( 0 )
+        f = gzip.GzipFile( None, "wb", gzip_compress_level, fh )
+        #f = fh
+        cPickle.dump( obj, f, -1 )
+        del f
+        fh.flush()
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def load( f ):
+        if FuseArchive.magic_profiling:
+            return { 'size': 0, 'chunks': 0, 'chunk_size': 0 }
+
+        inp = open( f, "rb" )
+        magic = Serializer.loadfh( inp )
+        inp.close()
+        return magic
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def loadfh( fh ):
+        logging.debug( "Going to load from %s" % fh )
+        fh.seek( 0 )
+        f = gzip.GzipFile( None, "rb", gzip_compress_level, fh )
+        #f = fh
+        magic = cPickle.load( f )
+        return( magic )
+